Acorn Stakes Handicapping Picks
Horse racing gamblers are you looking for 2020 Acorn Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping Odds…plus some predictions? Need some advice on who to take? The 2020 Acorn Stakes is set for Saturday at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. Here’s a preview of our top contenders.
Acorn Stakes Preview and Prediction
- Race: Acorn Stakes
- Purse: $300,000
- Track: Belmont Park
- Date: June 20
- Post Time: 4:15 PM (ET)
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2020 Acorn Stakes Handicapping
One of six graded-stakes races on an excellent Belmont Stakes Day card at Belmont Park on Saturday, the (G1) Acorn Stakes is open to fillies aged three and serves as a qualifying race for the September 4 Kentucky Oaks. Points will be awarded to the top four finishers on a 50-20-10-5 scale.
The race has drawn a solid field of seven to race one mile on the Belmont dirt track
Odds listed here are provided by Bovada’s racebook.
2020 Acorn Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping: Gamine Race Odds: 11-10
Speedy California-based filly Gamine didn’t race in her two-year-old season but hit the ground running in 2020, scoring her first win first time out at Santa Anita in March, and then followed that up with an allowance-level score at Oaklawn Park in early May.
That last effort was at 1 1/16 miles and she was losing some ground late to ultimately prevail by just a neck, so she should appreciate a slight cut back in distance here.
Bob Baffert is the trainer, John Velazquez gets the ride.
2020 Acorn Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping: Casual Race Odds: 3-1
Something of a mirror-image of the favourite, Casual also only came to the races in 2020 and has won her first two lifetime starts, coming from off the pace to get her maiden victory at Oaklawn in April. She followed that up with a pace-pressing score in an allowance race at Churchill Downs in May.
In both those efforts she rated plus-100 Equibase speed figures, with her first-out 104 the highest figure in this field.
Steve Asmussen trains, Ricardo Santana Jr. gets the mount.
2020 Acorn Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping: Lucrezia Race Odds: 6-1
A half-sister to Gamine, Lucrezia is one of the more experienced runners in the race, with six lifetime starts, and with three wins and two runner-up finishes on her record. Last out she ran second in the (G2) Gulfstream Park Oaks, beaten 3 1/4 lengths by Swiss Skydiver, who at this point is the odds-on favourite for the Kentucky Oaks.
Prior to that she was a back-to-back winner of a pair of lower level stakes at Tampa Bay Downs.
She’s trained by Arnaud Delecour, Julien Leparoux is slated to ride.
2020 Acorn Stakes Free Pick & Handicapping: Perfect Alibi Race Odds: 6-1
Last seen running a close-up fourth in the 2019 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies, Perfect Alibi has by far the most stakes racing experience in the field, with four of her six starts coming in graded stakes races.
She has a pair of wins and a runner-up finish in those, but she needs to find more speed as she’s the only runner among the top four without a triple-digit Equibase speed figure to her name. She also may need a bit more distance for her best.
Mark Casse is her trainer, Irad Ortiz Jr. will be in the irons.
Here’s my 2020 Acorn Stakes Free Pick.
On paper there’s a ton of speed in this race, with three or four in the field the type of horses that want to get to the front early. Typically that would mean the race sets up for a late closer, but at only one mile it appears at least one of the top contenders should be able to hold off any late charge.
I’m going to pick Casual for the win, and try to get some value with Perfect Alibi underneath in the exacta.
Full Field: Acorn Stakes Betting Odds
- Gamine 11-10
- Casual 3-1
- Lucrezia 6-1
- Perfect Alibi 6-1
- Water White 16-1
- Glass Ceiling 20-1
- Pleasant Orb 25-1
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